Cooley LLP, a leading US law firm with deep roots in Silicon Valley, announced today that newly-elected partner, Christina Zhang, and associate Benjamin Qiu will join Cooley’s Shanghai office. Zhang and Qiu will be part of the international firm’s Business & Technology practice group, and will work closely with partners Brad Peck and Patrick Loofbourrow, who founded Cooley’s Shanghai office in December 2011.
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LeClairRyan is pleased to announce the addition of four new employees to its San Francisco office. Joining the firm as shareholders in the corporate and tax practices are Bridget McInerney Harris and L. Randolph Harris. D. Karen Maready joins as an associate, along with legal assistant Georgina M. De Brito, in the same practices. All were formerly with Cooper, White & Cooper LLP.
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The Firm recently represented the initial purchasers, led by Barclays, Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan, RBS, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, HSBC and Wells Fargo Securities, in the Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $6 billion aggregate principal amount of notes of Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (“Kraft Foods Group”). The notes will be initially guaranteed by Kraft Foods Inc. (“Kraft”), which guarantee will be automatically released upon the completion of Kraft’s spin-off of Kraft Foods Group to its shareholders.
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Shearman & Sterling represented Media General, Inc., a publicly traded media company, in connection with financing agreements reached with Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the arrival of three new partners and four new associates at its rapidly growing Paris office. As the office recently celebrated its first anniversary, the new arrivals strengthen the Firm’s capabilities in the areas of corporate, tax and dispute resolution law.
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Linklaters has acted as international counsel to Aggreko in a ground-breaking scheme involving the construction and operation of an interim power plant supplying power to Eskom, the South African power company and Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), the Mozambique power utility.
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On the heels of hiring a core team of attorneys in the New Jersey-based Financial Services practice, national law firm Wilson Elser has retained another experienced attorney to grow its financial services/securities business. The firm is happy to report that Janene Marasciullo, a seasoned trial attorney and litigator, has joined its Midtown Manhattan office as a partner.
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Leading international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has advised Barclays and HSBC as joint lead managers and joint bookrunners on a US$250 million offering of 8.0% Notes Due 2017 by Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank), the country’s second-largest bank by market capitalization. A benchmark transaction for Vietnam, the deal is the first successfully completed international bond offering by a Vietnamese state-owned bank.
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Miller & Chevalier Chartered today announced that Barbara D. Linney has joined the firm’s Export Controls and Economic Sanctions practice as a Member. Linney comes to the firm from Blank Rome LLP, where she was a partner.
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Fasken Martineau, a leading international business law and litigation firm, announced today that Frank Mariage and Steve Boucratie have joined the firm’s Corporate/Commercial, Mergers & Acquisitions and Mining groups as partner and associate respectively, as of June 1, 2012.
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